Kazan electoral district
Constituency of the Russian Republic
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The Kazan electoral district (Russian: Казанский избирательный округ) was a constituency created for the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election.
| Kazan | |
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| Former Civilian constituency for the All-Russian Constituent Assembly | |
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| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1917 |
| Abolished | 1918 |
| Number of members | 12 |
| Number of Uyezd Electoral Commissions | 12 |
| Number of Urban Electoral Commissions | 1 |
| Number of Parishes | 182 |
| Sources: | [1][2] |
The electoral district covered the Kazan Governorate.[3] The constituency was assigned 12 seats in the Constituent Assembly.[4]
Notably, local SR party branch was dominated by leftist elements.[5]
A 66% turnout was reported.[6] The Chuvash people largely voted for the SRs.[5] The Tatar voters were split between leftist and rightist lists.[7] In Kazan city itself the Bolsheviks were the most voted party, with 21,118 votes (26.1%), followed by the Kadets with 20,044 votes (24.8%), the SRs with 15,356 votes (18.9%), Muslim Socialists 12,730 votes (15.7%), Orthodox list 3,215 votes (4%), Mensheviks 2,605 votes (3.2%), Muslim Assembly 2,304 votes (2.8%), right-wing SRs 1,681 votes (2.1%), Cooperative-Independent Socialists 802 votes (1%), Chuvash 696 votes (0.8%) and the Agricultural-Artisan-Commercial-Industrial list 508 votes (0.6%).[8] In the Kazan garrison the Bolsheviks got 10,706 votes (40.8%), SRs 9,177 votes (34.9%), Muslim Socialists 3,156 votes (12%), Kadets 1,686 votes (6.4%), Chuvash 577 votes (2.2%), Mensheviks 400 votes (1.5%), right-wing SRs 305 votes (1.2%), Cooperative-Independent Socialists 162 votes (0.6%), Agricultural-Artisan-Commercial Industrial list 51 votes (0.2%), Orthodox list 48 votes (0.1%) and the Muslim Assembly 40 votes (0.1%).[8]
Results
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